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🇹🇷TETHER FREEZES $544 MILLION USDT IN TURKEY
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino confirmed the firm helped Turkish authorities freeze $544M in USDT linked to illegal gambling and money laundering.
He said the move followed law-enforcement intelligence and mirrors Tether’s cooperation with agencies like the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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What is happening in crypto?
Since October 10th, crypto markets are now down -50%, erasing $2.2 TRILLION worth of market cap.
Bitcoin has officially erased ALL of its post-election rally, now down -10% since Trump's election.
Why is it crashing? Let us explain.
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đź”» Trending Portfolios: Unr. Losses
• @BitMNR -$7.9B
• @Strategy -$5.9B
• #TMTG -$473M
• @VitalikButerin -$350M (3m)
• @TRON_INC -$22M
• @cypherpunk -$14.1M
• @MustStopMurad -12.7M (3m)
• @cz_binance -$826K
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Akshay BD left solana and cryto
Anthony left zksync and crypto
Kyle left multicoin and crypto
Nader left eigen and cryto
some of the smartest people are leaving, bottom is in, lads.
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Replying to @duckyLeQuacky
> a company is created and kyb’d with a card issuer or program
> from the issuer’s point of view, the company is the actual customer
> the company then issues “employee” or “authorized user” cards
> end users are treated as employees, not as banking customers
> because of that, the end users themselves are not kyc’d
> this is how these cards market themselves as “no‑kyc”
> unlike prepaid cards, these are corporate expense cards
> that means they can hold and move significantly more money than prepaid cards
> crypto usually can’t be deposited directly, so there is some mental gymnastics / backend workarounds in place
> in practice, this is a regulatory loophole using a kyb’d (often shell) company
> it’s fragile by design and very likely to be cracked down on eventually. massive risk to users who may lose all their funds.
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Ondo Finance@OndoFeb 3
North America
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Revealed live at the Ondo Summit.
Catch every announcement as it happens 👇
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imagine being worth $92 billion but an insecure chigga
CZs testosterone deficiency needs to be studied
he can't handle people disagreeing with him
- CZ disabled replies on all his posts
- blocked what feels like half of crypto twitter
- now he's unfollowed SOL founder
btw this is the founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, the guy who posts "4" as a flex
the one who presents himself as untouchable
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If you invest $10,000 in AERO, you get $4,167/year in actual yield.
If you invest $10,000 in UNI, you get $56/year.
@valueverse_ai research compares revenue efficiency across major DeFi tokens ↓
Two types of DeFi revenue models:
• Fee-sharing: You lock tokens, get paid USDC/ETH directly
• Buybacks: Protocol burns tokens, you hope price goes up
The results (lower = better value):
Fee-sharing tokens:
• AERO: 2.41x multiplier
• PENDLE: 3.77x
• CRV: 6.41x
Buyback tokens:
• PUMP: 4.31x
• HYPE: 15.37x
• AAVE: 75x
• UNI: 179x
What the multiplier means:
2.41x = pay $2.41 today, get $1/year in revenue
179x = pay $179 today, get $1/year in revenue
The efficiency gap can be as high as 74x between protocols.
The data shows:
Fee-sharing protocols like AERO delivered $184M in claimable fees to holders while spending only $26.5M on buybacks.
Yet buyback-focused tokens consistently trade at higher multipliers.
The thesis:
The market overpays for buyback narratives while undervaluing tokens that deliver actual cash weekly.
Fee-sharing models could drive the next wave as the market reprices based on tangible yield vs speculation.
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JUP stakers get $FIGHT Airdrop
But how much?
Other partner airdrops were around $2M
If we keep in mind that this airdrop will be split among stakers and Jup mobile traders it will be $1M each
Likely it's time-weighted (which is hard to estimate)
But it could be something around ~$100 per 20K $JUP staked (if staked whole 2024/25)
$JUP stakers could receive up to 3 airdrops by Jan 31th.
You might get 3 rewards this month as a JUP staker.
> JUP airdrop (Jupuary)
> Active staking reward (ASR)
> JoinFight ID $FIGHT
Similar to how we got project token deal rewards together with ASR, like ( $ZEUS, $UPT, $SHARK, $DBR etc)
One of the partner projects under JoinFightID, Genius, announced FIGHT rewards for its community yesterday.
InfoFi is dead. Ragebait is alive.
More assets launched on Solana, RWAs crossed $1B TVL, and a global brokerage house just turned on the 24/7 funding tap.
Here’s what happened while your timeline buffered:
đź“° Headline News
- @Starknet, @zora, @sportfun, @fogo, and @Lighter_xyz tokens went live on Solana
- Solana's RWA TVL surpassed $1B, marking a new all-time high
- Interactive Brokers enabled 24/7 funding via USDC on Solana
- @TrojanOnSolana’s The Arena went live with $5M rewards for early users
đź“° Launches
- @avici unveiled Virtual Accounts powered by @moonpay
- @Titan_Exchange added Limit Orders, starting with select pairs
- @heliuslabs shipped an upgrade to unify transaction histories for any address
- @dflow integrated @PreStocks to bring pre-IPO stock trading
- @colosseum dropped its 2026 hackathon schedule
- @fairscalexyz debuted FairScale to quantify user reputation
- @alldomains launched hybrid .com domains
- @OverclockSol released its full node client Mithril’s Alpha version
- @RemoraMarkets brought tokenized representation of 5 precious metal ETFs
- @theprivacycash introduced private swaps
- @ManifestTrade expanded its high yield destiny vault to @PayPal’s PYUSD
- @MysticDAO demoed its gamified DeFi card game
đź“° Milestones
- @kamino’s PRIME Market, powered by @HastraFi, hit $300M in Market Size
- Solana x402 transactions flipped @base in daily volume
- @useKled scaled the world’s largest human-powered data effort to 3M daily uploads across 200K+ contributors
3 weeks until we Accelerate in Hong Kong.
If we missed anything, drop it in the comments.
God I hate @solana marketing so much, so cringe, just constant brainrot, ragebait, copypasta and slop
I can’t believe people sign off on this, fire the intern, they’re always punching down
Institutions and banks will never work with a chain that is so unprofessional, not all engagement is good engagement
I hate it so much that I’m going to QT every post of theirs to tell people how much I hate it, everyone has to know about this bullshit
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Seen a lot of people asking wtf Coingecko is valued at $500M.
Now look:
Coingecko has 18.4M visitors monthly.
If they sell ads, it usually goes at $8-$10 per 1,000 impressions.
If they have 3 ad slots, they earn ~$500K per month (~$6M annualized).
In fact, they have more ad slots + alt revenue souces (premium listings, animated icons, etc).
So I think ann revenue is somewhat close to $10-12M.
And when you own so much attention, you can build a lot around it.
Think a new type of infofi product launched by Coingecko.
Naah, compared to many other Web3 companies trading at $1b+ valuations, Coingecko at $500M sound a bit too high but still in the fair range.
[ ZOOMER ]
COINGECKO CONSIDERS SALE FOR APPROXIMATELY $500M DOLLARS ACCORDING TO SOURCES: COINDESK
it's great to already see some success cases off the back of this update
many more updates and success stories to come!
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How do crypto payment cards actually work?
Spoiler: it’s not magic, it’s rails & stablecoins.
Two setups:
- Custodial, exchange holds funds (Binance, Crypto. com, etc.)
- Non-custodial, you keep control, spend via smart-contract limits
The flow:
Tap card: Visa/Mastercard rails. Issuer freezes $USDC. Tx approved. Merchant paid.
Crypto UX. TradFi rails. Stablecoins in the middle.
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The disappearance of Alon Cohen
- be Alon
- memecoin trader on Solana
- gets rugged, honeypotted, drained like everyone else
- realizes the game is broken
- launches are unfair
- decides to fix it
- meets Noah Tweedale and Dylan Kerler
- registers Baton Corporation in the UK
- idea is simple
- make launching a token stupidly easy
- September 2023
- domain pumpfun is registered
- January 19, 2024
- pumpfun goes live on Solana
- bonding curves
- instant liquidity
- anyone can mint a token in seconds
- thousands of tokens
- then hundreds of thousands
- then millions
- most die
- some graduate to Raydium
- all generate fees
- Q1 2024 and $2.4M revenue
- already bigger than most startups ever get
- Q2 2024 revenue explodes to $47M
- memecoins become Solana’s main activity
- summer 2024
- livestreams launch
- UK regulator steps in
- UK users banned
- platform keeps growing elsewhere
- end of 2024
- over 3 million tokens created
- critics say it’s a casino
- supporters say it’s free markets
- Alon calls it “internet capital markets”
- 2025 numbers go insane
- $500M+ yearly revenue
- $80B+ DEX volume
- 6M tokens created
- most never graduate but fees keep printing
- users start asking
- where’s the airdrop?
- OG traders feel ignored
- July 2025 and Alon drops the nuke
- launches token PUMP
- $600M ICO in 12 minutes
- $1.3B total raised
- introduces buybacks
- critics scream exit liquidity
- an airdrop is promised
- late 2025
- massive USDC transfers to Kraken and
- Alon goes silent on X after November 8
- pumpfun has generated $870M in revenue
- still no airdrop
internet capital markets or the biggest casino ever built?













































